Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he really is expected to know something about it. We all, I am sure, deeply sympathize with those poor mortals who find their burdens so great and their minds taxed so heavily by the requirements of certain courses that they "shrink from a continuance of such a demand upon their memories in the next-term." One naturally wants outside interests and should have them and find time for them, but the very fact that a person finds himself here at a university implies that he is supposed to learn something and not kick about courses that take a little...
...subject. Instead of creating a desire to pursue a topic, which in itself may be one of the most engaging and valuable the college offers, the over abundance of minutiae often is too great a burden for the average student and he shrinks from a continuance of such a demand upon his memory in the next term. A so-called introductory course that leaves behind it a group of disappointed students who are wary of similar courses in spite of the advantages which should be gained by their study, cannot but call forth criticism in the hope that the obvious...
...wishes of Congress and public sentiment, endeavored to force the passage of Army and Navy appropriation bills far too large for present uses or requirements. The desire to spend has evidently not decreased with the cessation of actual hostilities; and their now martial tendencies are leading them to demand larger armaments than before...
...pressing need of the school, a matter so important that it must have immediate attention, if the school is to accomplish all that was expected of it, when it was founded. In the work it has already accomplished, the Business School has proved conclusively that there is a real demand and a great need for some institution to bridge the gap between college and business, particularly for men who have been taking a liberal course while at college. That such an opportunity should, be limited; either in the number of students that can be eared for, or in the scope...
...Allen's suggestion that the editors seek more to meet the demand of their public than to collect literary gems strikes at the root of the weakness,--past, present and future. An adoption of the suggestion would do much to make the Advocate more effectively fill the place which exists for it in the college community...